The Grand Challenges for Engineering continue to have wide-ranging impacts around the globe. Engineers are constantly working to build our future and address world needs-- some of their ideas can be found among the stories from the NAE's weekly radio and podcast series, Engineering Innovation.

This page will feature a variety of news articles, videos, and blog posts related to the Grand Challenges and the work people are doing to tackle them!

A WSU research team for the first time has developed a computer algorithm that is nearly as accurate as people are at mapping brain neural networks — a breakthrough that could speed up the image analysis that researchers use to understand brain circuitry.

The engineering community is beginning to take note of the University of Denver in ways that were hard to imagine just five years ago. Nowhere was this more evident than at the 2017 Global Grand Challenges Summit, sponsored by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the UK Royal Academy of ...

Bethany Gordon, an engineering student at the University of Virginia, US, has won a unique podcast competition looking at how engineers can improve people’s lives with the NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering.

The National Academy of Engineering has named Worcester Polytechnic Institute a Grand Challenge Scholars School in recognition of the university's unique approach to educating and empowering students to research and implement sustainable solutions to significant challenges facing society.